My OpenBSD UI is sillier than a barrel of frogs and I can't figure out why!

So far my experience on this forum has been good, and before giving up and installing Fluxbox I thought I'd ask ... actually I don't even know the question ... but these are the problems I have:

I installed Firefox. Works fine but the title bar is above the topmost virtual desktop, I cannot reach it nor can I move the window (it's like that whenever I start Firefox) and further, if I left-click in the window, anyway, it just scrolls up? I can't click links or buttons or anything!

I cannot seem to move, or resize the terminal window (or any other window). Now, I may not be an OpenBSD expert, but I am not stupid! And after a week I still can't move a window, I think there may be something wrong.

I'm not sure if these two things are related. Currently I'm trying to understand the Fvwm configuration file hoping to find a line that says "LetWindowsMoveAndResize==NO".

I've heard a couple people say that, by default, dragging and resizing windows should be trivial....

Sorry for the long post .... anyone have any ideas/suggestions? I'm really stumped!

Here's my fvwm config.http://hg.bsdroot.lv/aldis/dot.fvwm/
It is designed for fvwm 2.5.x
I wrote some stuff little different, so you may need to make a link to ~/.fvwm/config
I don't remember which file fvwm 2.4 was reading.

in my config there's config.sh script. I wrote my config very dynamic using sh as preprocessor
in .xinitrc you need to add

jggimi,
No, Firefox is not in full screen mode. All I know is that I somehow coaxed the browser window into moving up and now I can't get it back, or move any other window apparently.

wimwauters,
coherent binaries and matching packages? I'm not entirely sure what you mean. I installed from cd48.iso as is and firefox 3.6.8 was the first and only package i installed (it was the only version listed so I installed it)

killasmurf,
Thanks for the links. They will be helpful. But I'm afraid your config files are a little over my head :P

I did find something odd though...

By default fvwm loads one 3x3 desktop, but nothing is returned when I run:

I ran the same command for the system.fvwm2rc, system.fvwm2rc-sample-1, and system.fvwm2rc-2 files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/ and nothing is returned.

So I added "DesktopSize 2x2" and "DesktopName 0 Main" to my home config, restarted fvwm, and I still have a 3x3 desktop?!

So obviously fvwm is not being affected by my /home/user/.fvwm2rc file!
Now, I don't mind fiddling around until the key bindings are they way I like, but does anyone have any idea why fvwm is not being affected by the changes I make in the file??

Your problem is fvwm2rc in your /home/usr/.fvwm2rc it should read .fvwmrc.

Your options are to rename it or better to delete it and do following.
cd /usr/X11/R6/lib/X11/fvwm (you will see system.fvwm2rc file, copy it to your home directory.) Make sure you logged in as user not root.
cp system.fvwm2rc ~/.fvwmrc (This will copy the file to home directory
and rename it to .fvwmrc)

cd ~/ (Change to home directory)

ls -lA (Check to see if the file .fvwmrc is there)

chmod 660 .fvwmrc (This will give the file permission to modify)

Make sure there is . (period) in front of .fvwmrc

Log out and log in to X and you should be able to have good running X and be able to tweak your .fvwmrc.

Suggestion, before you make any changes to .fvwmrc make copy of it
something like .fvwmrc_copy. This way when you screw too much your original you can rename your .fvwmrc_copy to .fvwmrc and you back to
original.

Hey again! Thanks for your help. I renamed the config file from .fvwm2rc to .fvwmrc and tested it using Beastie's key bindings, which worked (Thanks Mako). Actually, I did this quite a while ago and played around with the config file for about a week. I've decided I appreciate and admire fvwm, and will now use dwm for now anyways.

This worked out well however as it elucidated the source of one of my initial concerns:

PROBLEM: Left clicking in a window causes the page to scroll up. (Firefox, xterm (e.g. when viewing a manual pages, even emacs (sometimes) ! This occurs under fvwm or dwm so is it X?

Not sure if it helps but I switched window managers by editing "fvwm || xterm" in ~/.xinitrc to read "dwm || xterm" and also I sometimes get "(firefox-bin:10752) Gtk-CTRITICAL **" or "(firefox-bin:10752) Gtk-CTRITICAL **") sent to my terminal...but somehow I doubt these are the problems...

Any suggestions regarding the mouse-left-click-scroll-up problem would be great appreciated, I'm really stumped on this one! :S